AFA Creative Writing Suggested Reading

1.
Fleabag: The Scriptures
Fleabag: The Scriptures 4.88 avg rating — 14,707 ratings
2.
Fleabag: The Original Play
Fleabag: The Original Play 4.47 avg rating — 6,729 ratings
3.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Letters to a Young Contrarian 4.13 avg rating — 12,650 ratings
4.
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
So You've Been Publicly Shamed 3.93 avg rating — 65,195 ratings
5.
Chewing Gum Dreams
Chewing Gum Dreams 3.93 avg rating — 228 ratings
6.
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 140,309 ratings
7.
History of the Rain
History of the Rain 4.02 avg rating — 7,819 ratings
8.
George Saunders Collection 3 Books Set
George Saunders Collection 3 Books Set 4.11 avg rating — 53 ratings
9.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station 3.79 avg rating — 18,338 ratings
10.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,134 ratings
11.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall 3.51 avg rating — 31,555 ratings
12.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned 3.88 avg rating — 9,092 ratings
13.
Leaving the Sea: Stories
Leaving the Sea: Stories 3.35 avg rating — 1,037 ratings
14.
Lying Under the Apple Tree
Lying Under the Apple Tree 3.92 avg rating — 335 ratings
15.
The Beautiful Indifference
The Beautiful Indifference 3.76 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
16.
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3) 3.86 avg rating — 84,278 ratings
17.
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour 3.08 avg rating — 15,490 ratings
18.
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 3.71 avg rating — 125,624 ratings
19.
The Blazing World
The Blazing World 3.71 avg rating — 8,678 ratings
20.
The Wake
The Wake really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,478 ratings
21.
The Bone Clocks
The Bone Clocks 3.84 avg rating — 99,265 ratings
22.
The Lives of Others
The Lives of Others 3.68 avg rating — 5,000 ratings
23.
The Dog
The Dog 3.16 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
24.
Orfeo
Orfeo 3.66 avg rating — 6,709 ratings
25.
How to be Both
How to be Both
by: Ali Smith
3.66 avg rating — 26,693 ratings
26.
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life 4.40 avg rating — 120 ratings
27.
The Iceberg
The Iceberg 3.99 avg rating — 1,442 ratings
28.
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,927 ratings
29.
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery 4.25 avg rating — 41,368 ratings
30.
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America 4.07 avg rating — 19,298 ratings
31.
Girl in a Band
Girl in a Band 3.67 avg rating — 31,037 ratings
32.
Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story
Irritable Hearts: A PTSD Love Story 3.80 avg rating — 797 ratings
33.
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania 4.13 avg rating — 157,327 ratings
34.
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids 3.75 avg rating — 7,324 ratings
35.
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy
The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy 3.60 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
36.
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own
Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own 3.46 avg rating — 9,417 ratings
37.
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction 3.92 avg rating — 182 ratings
38.
M Train
M Train 4.02 avg rating — 48,833 ratings
39.
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties 4.25 avg rating — 5,722 ratings
40.
How to Be Alone
How to Be Alone 3.58 avg rating — 12,393 ratings
41.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays 4.18 avg rating — 52,981 ratings
42.
Landmarks
Landmarks 4.23 avg rating — 4,290 ratings
43.
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016 3.83 avg rating — 647 ratings
44.
Moontide
Moontide 3.93 avg rating — 70 ratings
45.
Talking Dead
Talking Dead 3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings
46.
Physical
Physical 3.91 avg rating — 839 ratings
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Bright Travellers
Bright Travellers 4.07 avg rating — 143 ratings
48.
All One Breath
All One Breath 4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings
49.
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Faithful and Virtuous Night 3.94 avg rating — 5,856 ratings
50.
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth
Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
51.
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting 3.70 avg rating — 629 ratings
52.
When God is a Traveller
When God is a Traveller 3.78 avg rating — 152 ratings
53.
Pretty
Pretty 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
54.
Division Street
Division Street 4.14 avg rating — 206 ratings
55.
81 Austerities
81 Austerities 3.61 avg rating — 167 ratings
56.
Meanwhile, Trees
Meanwhile, Trees really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
57.
Rake
Rake 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
58.
Black Country
Black Country
by: Liz Berry
4.21 avg rating — 289 ratings
59.
Pandorama
Pandorama
by: Ian Duhig
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
60.
Between Two Windows
Between Two Windows 3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
61.
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You
The Boy from the Chemist is Here to See You 3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
62.
My Family and Other Superheroes
My Family and Other Superheroes 3.76 avg rating — 98 ratings
63.
Cain
Cain 4.13 avg rating — 114 ratings
64.
Hare Soup
Hare Soup 4.14 avg rating — 49 ratings
65.
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
Look We Have Coming to Dover! 3.54 avg rating — 342 ratings
66.
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile
The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile 4.05 avg rating — 191 ratings
67.
Jackself
Jackself 4.10 avg rating — 140 ratings
68.
The Wrecking Light
The Wrecking Light 4.08 avg rating — 169 ratings
69.
Landing Light
Landing Light 3.91 avg rating — 235 ratings
70.
Sixty Poems
Sixty Poems really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 539 ratings
71.
Human Dark with Sugar
Human Dark with Sugar 3.87 avg rating — 572 ratings
72.
Maggot: Poems
Maggot: Poems 3.48 avg rating — 169 ratings
73.
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion 4.15 avg rating — 774 ratings
74.
Eight
Eight 3.62 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem 4.05 avg rating — 2,460 ratings
76.
Amadeus
Amadeus 4.15 avg rating — 18,797 ratings
77.
Scaramouche Jones
Scaramouche Jones 3.39 avg rating — 33 ratings
78.
Rock 'n' Roll
Rock 'n' Roll 3.71 avg rating — 1,489 ratings
79.
Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay 4.22 avg rating — 6,417 ratings
80.
...some trace of her
...some trace of her 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
81.
Ballyturk
Ballyturk 3.89 avg rating — 127 ratings
82.
The Last of the Haussmans
The Last of the Haussmans 3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
83.
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. 3.94 avg rating — 473 ratings
84.
Each Slow Dusk
Each Slow Dusk liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
85.
The Village Bike
The Village Bike 3.57 avg rating — 82 ratings
86.
Cockroach
Cockroach 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings
87.
Eden's Empire
Eden's Empire 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
88.
Me, As a Penguin
Me, As a Penguin
by: Tom Wells
3.50 avg rating — 44 ratings
89.
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet 3.47 avg rating — 96 ratings
90.
The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction 3.92 avg rating — 2,983 ratings
91.
The Creative Writing Student's Handbook (Creative Writing Matters Guides, #1)
The Creative Writing Student's Handbook (Creative Writing Matters Guides, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 110 ratings
92.
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry
The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry 3.96 avg rating — 358 ratings
93.
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings
Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings
by: Jane Yeh
4.06 avg rating — 281 ratings
94.
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing 3.63 avg rating — 199 ratings
95.
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in their Own Words
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Poets in their Own Words 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings
96.
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in their Own Words
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern Poets in their Own Words 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
97.
Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry
Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry 3.93 avg rating — 86 ratings
98.
How to Write: A Screenplay, 2nd Edition
How to Write: A Screenplay, 2nd Edition 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings
99.
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting Paperback – November 29, 2005
by: Syd Field
3.99 avg rating — 8,540 ratings
100.
Is There a Book in You?
Is There a Book in You? 3.69 avg rating — 58 ratings